Resuming on 318-3, Glamorgan crawled along against the newish ball, with Sam Cook particularly accurate, though Tribe was happy to accumulate gently in his second major score in successive innings after scoring 155 against Surrey. Together with his England Lions runs, Tribe passed 1,000 in first-class cricket for the season as he tries to stay
Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff (day one) Glamorgan 318-3: Tribe 135* Carlson 107 Essex: Critchley 2-56 Glamorgan 2 points, Essex 1 point Match scorecard Asa Tribe and captain Kiran Carlson put Glamorgan in a commanding position against Essex on the opening day of their final County Championship match of the season at
Batter Billy Root will follow fellow long-serving Glamorgan player Colin Ingram into retirement from top-flight cricket at the end of the 2026 season. The 34-year-old joined the Welsh county in 2019 from Nottinghamshire, making 67 appearances that included seven hundreds and a memorable double century at Northampton as he totalled almost 5,000 Glamorgan runs. Root,
The hard-hitting left-hand batter arrived at Sophia Gardens in 2015, quickly becoming a leading part of the team and a fan favourite. He then played little Championship cricket for a five-year spell because of knee problems and T20 franchise commitments around the world. Ingram featured in an impressive range of tournaments in Australia, India, Pakistan,
Middlesex started strongly when opener Artemis Downer, who hit an unbeaten 60 when they hammered Glamorgan by 10 wickets earlier in September, impressed with a couple of boundaries before being caught at point off Anna-Mae Shearn. Izzy Routledge and Sproul helped steady the ship with a fluent 60-run partnership, before Routledge was caught at mid-off
